Danko-Sliptsova A. Political and communication processes of formation of the modern information society.

The thesis is focused on the problems of development of technologies of political communication. In the dissertation the author develops the complex research of development of the political communication system was conducted and is based on a dynamic development of the new domestic media in an emerging modern information society. The research of the concepts of "political communications", features of the process of formation of political communications in modern society and their interaction and interdependence with the media are considered. The relevance and features of ensuring the availability and openness of political information and the manipulative influences of political actors used in political communication processes, in particular, in the activities of the media, are studied. The problems of mass political communications in the conditions of social and political transformations in Ukraine are revealed. The concept of "new media" is considered, their differences from traditional ones, new rules of work for subjects of political communication in new media are clarified, prospects of further use of new forms and methods of political communication are analyzed.